Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'm just reviewing again through OPQs—Order Paper questions—some of the contracts that were awarded. It was $1.8 million to McKinsey, with a contract extension, to advance cultural evolution through stakeholder analysis. That's quite the contract for $1.8 million. There is a $339,000 sole-source contract. There's another sole-source contract for half a million dollars—$517,387—and then a contract for $5.7 million from August 2022 to February 2023. These are significant contracts.
On February 6, 2023, your minister at the time, Helena Jaczek, said, “Of the 24 contracts that were awarded to McKinsey by PSPC since 2011, three of them, worth more than 50% of the total value, were awarded through open, fair and transparent competition.” However, according to the AG's report, you were responsible for only three contracts totalling over $26 million, and only one of those was competitive.
Why was that the case, please?